Stainfield, Kesteven
| Stainfield | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Elsthorpe Road, Stainfield | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF079250 |
| Location: | 52°48’45"N, 0°23’56"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Bourne |
| Postcode: | PE10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Kesteven |
Stainfield is a hamlet in Kesteven, the south-western part of Lincolnshire, three miles north of Bourne and a mile west of the main A15 trunk road.
The name Stainfield (previously 'Stenfield') is said to derive from "a stony clearing", from the Old Norse steinn and þveit.[1] or the Old English stænen field for 'stony field'.
History
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A Roman station was sited at Stainfield, a settlement established on account of local mineral springs, where Roman coins have been found. A Roman road, now known as King Street, passes through the hamlet. The springs were used until the middle of the 18th century.
Stainfield appears in the 1086 Domesday Book account as "Stainfelde" or "Steinfelde", in the manor of Haconby and Stainfield. The village contained 14 households, 13 villeins, 6 smallholders, 3 freemen and one priest. It comprised just over 3 ploughlands, a meadow of 40 acres, woodland of 80 acres, and one mill. The Lord in 1066 was Leofric. By 1086 however the land had passed to Heppo the bowman, as Lord of the Manor and Tenant-in-chief.[2]
There was once a chapel in the hamlet.[3]
In 1933 Stainfield occupations included two farmers, one at the Manor farm, and three smallholders.[4]
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References
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Stainfield, Kesteven in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 262
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, p. 275
